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In The State of the World's Children 1997, UNICEF reports that "Romania has launched a pilot project in Bucharest to give juvenile offenders who would normally be sent to reform school the opportunity to remain with their families, receive counseling by social workers and carry out community service work in public institutions." Curiously, this penal reform would require youthful miscreants in socialist Romania to be treated in much the same way an ever-increasing number of school districts treat law-abiding American high school students. Across the nation, students are being sentenced to "community service" as a prerequisite for a high school...

<p>More than 90,000 students at 14 state-owned universities would each be required to perform 25 hours of community service annually under a legislative proposal announced Monday.</p> <p>The measure, proposed by Rep. Mike Veon, a Beaver County Democrat, also would apply to thousands more students at 14 community colleges in the state, including the Community College of Allegheny County.</p>

A civil liberties group says a Maryland public school system violated the rights of two students by denying them community service credit for participating in a religious program for Indian children. In its lawsuit, the Virginia-based Rutherford Institute says Montgomery County Public Schools violated the students' rights to religious freedom, free assembly and equal protection as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Montgomery County schools require all students to complete 60 hours of community service before they graduate. Students who complete more than 200 hours receive a special award. According to the Rutherford Institute, two students - Joshua and...

<p>Complete eight hours of volunteer community work a month or be evicted.</p> <p>That's the ultimatum being given to hundreds of thousands of able-bodied, unemployed residents of public housing complexes across the nation and in metro Detroit as part of a new federal law that takes effect Oct. 1.</p>

<p>BALTIMORE &#8212; A national gathering of the United States' "armies of compassion" closed out its three-day meeting yesterday with a lesson from a baseball legend.</p> <p>Teamwork is the way to success, and teamwork comes from personal connections, retired Baltimore Orioles star Cal Ripken Jr. told the National Conference on Community Volunteering and National Service.</p>

FL First Lady Columba Bush Receives Helen A. Davis Award From the Children's Home ~~First Lady Honored for Her Community Service Benefiting Children~~ For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 16, 2002 Contact: Leslie D. Steele (850) 488-5394 TAMPA - - First Lady Columba Bush was awarded the Helen. A. Davis Award for her outstanding service benefiting children at the Children's Home 13th Annual Recognition Luncheon in Tampa today. "I am extremely honored to receive this award," Mrs. Bush said. "Children are our most important resource. I enjoy working with young people, and I'm constantly encouraged by their decisions to take...

In their pure forms, Americans reject socialism and fascism. Those political systems are to extreme and un-American. But over time we have adopted many ideals of socialism, having accepted that capitalism is also too extreme and a mixed economy is morally superior. Politicians have long recognized that they can increase their power by selling a socialist ideal and then defining a government initiative to quot;meet the needquot;. However, some politicians harbor more ambitious goals. Remember when charity and community activities were personal choices? Then we were inundated with the need to contribute more, and sold on the concept of duty...